German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): topographic or metonymic
occupational name for someone who owned or lived by an orchard or was
employed in one, from Middle High German boumgarte ‘orchard’ (a
compound of boum ‘tree’ + garte ‘enclosure’), German
Baumgarten. There are also several villages named with this
word, and so in some cases the surname may have originated as a
habitational name from one of these. EG As a Jewish name, it is
mainly ornamental.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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